Where does “viivasalama” come from?

viivasalama (Finnish) comes from Finnish Salama, from Proto-Finnic salama, from Proto-Uralic śala — elm.

viivasalama (Finnish): streak lightning

Definitions

  1. streak lightning

Ancestry of “viivasalama”, step by step

viivasalama traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Salama

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishSalamalightning, bolt
2Proto-Finnicsalamalightning
3Proto-Uralicśalaelm

via Finnish viiva

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishviivaline; dash, hyphen; bar
2Finnishvije-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic śala →